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Programs-on-Wheels2014 -2015Bring the excitement of Cincinnati Museum Center to your location

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About Programs-on-Wheels Bring the excitement of Cincinnati Museum Center directly to your location! Choose from a broad array of educational and entertaining science, natural history and social studies programs for pre-school through 8th grade, adults, and teachers. All programs are aligned with national and Ohio Revised Academic Content Standards. For a chart of curriculum alignments visit cincymuseum.org/educators/outreach. Additionally, academic standard charts can be found on the final pages of this guide.

For pre-K through grade 8See page 11 for our Adult Programs-on-Wheels options!

Prices Early Childhood (pre-K through kindergarten)2 programs $260*3 programs $360*4 programs $460*

Single program Oct. through Jan. $165**Feb. through May $190**Jun. through Sept. $140

Elementary & Secondary2 programs $285*3 programs $390*4 programs $505*

Single programOct. through Jan. $180**Feb. through May $205**Jun. through Sept. $155

Adult & TeacherAdult Programs Pricing same as Elementary & SecondaryTeacher Workshop $200 per program

Exploration Stations$155 per hour (2 hour minimum)

* Multiple programs on same day

** Book early to save! Book 5 or more single programs for the 2014-15 school year by Sept 15 and each program is $140

* Multiple programs on same day

** Book early to save! Book 5 or more single programs for the 2014-15 school year by Sept 15 and each program is $155

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Program AvailabilityPrograms are available for schools, daycare centers, pre-schools, libraries, community centers, church groups, scouts, summer camps, and more.

Programs designed for preschool and kindergarten have a maximum of 24 participants and a minimum age requirement of 3 years.

Programs for grades 1 through 8 have a maximum of 30 participants.

Programs are available during business hours Monday through Friday and evenings and weekends if staff is available.

Programs are available within a 125-mile radius of downtown Cincinnati.

Programs given within a 35 to 55-mile radius will be charged a travel fee of $35 per visit with a 2 program per visit minimum.




Schedule TodayWe recommend scheduling as early as possible, as days close out quickly.

Payment or signed purchase order is required 2 weeks prior to programs.

All programs require 15 to 45 minutes of set-up and take-down time.

Consecutive programs booked on the same day should be scheduled with at least 15 minutes between programs.

Late cancellation fee of $35 if cancelled within 2 business days of program.

Cincinnati Museum Center gratefully acknowledges

Time Warner Cable and Connect a Million Minds as a supporting partner

Ashland Inc. Advised Funds of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

Toyota Motor North America

SC Ministry Foundation

Additionally, Museum Center sincerely appreciates the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County and the State of Ohio for operating and capital support.

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Early Childhood Science & Social Studies ProgramsAges 3 through kindergarten

45 minutes, maximum 24 students per program

* Program requires a large open spaceES= Program available in exploration station format. See page 11 for details.

For further information or to book, call (513) 287-7021.

A Cultural ExperienceUse music, toys, colorful clothing and role playing to explore cultures from Peru, Japan and Mali.

3…2…1… Blast Off!* ESBuild the solar system in your classroom then blast off with radio-controlled space shuttles to explore what’s beyond our planet. View photos and learn about gravity, asteroids, orbits and more!

Coral: A Colorful Community ESLearn what coral is, where it lives, what it eats and how it protects itself. Explore different types of real coral skeletons, experience how a coral polyp feels and view pictures of some of the creatures that live in a coral reef. Make a coral reef habitat come to life with beautiful puppets. Program can be adapted for children up to grade 3. Call for details.

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Dino Dig* ESGrowl, claw and walk like a dinosaur! Dig up fossils and identify what dinosaurs they came from! Learn about different kinds of dinosaurs, including what they looked like, what they ate and how they protected themselves.

Egg-cellent EggsExplore bird eggs and learn about their shapes, sizes, colors and nests through hands-on activities. Learn about the other animals that lay eggs and crack open an egg to find out what’s inside!

From the Backyard to the BarnyardUse puppets to investigate animals that might live in backyard or barnyard habitats. Meet one of our resident animals, investigate what this animal eats and discover how it finds food by echolocation.

How Does Your Garden Grow?*What does a plant look like? What does it need to grow? Learn about the parts of a plant, the plant life cycle and the difference between fruits and vegetables. Then spend some time digging in the dirt and plant your own seed to take home.

Our Five SensesIt takes a nose to know, or maybe hands, ears, eyes or a tongue! Explore the magic of your senses through fun, hands-on activities and even interact with a live animal.

Snug as a Bug ESBuild a bug, see through the eyes of a fly, and learn the life cycle of a caterpillar. Explore how insects protect themselves by playing a game of hide-and-seek with a very hungry frog. Meet and touch live insects and marvel at incredible mounted bugs from around the world.


Early Childhood Science & Social Studies Programs (continued)Ages 3 through kindergarten

45 minutes, maximum 24 students per program



Stuffee, the Amazing Anatomy DollMeet Stuffee, a seven-foot-tall, blue-haired, smiling anatomy doll that unzips to show what’s inside all of us. Feed Stuffee lunch and use stethoscopes to listen to your own beating heart.

Tall TailsWiggle, waggle and hop and prop as you learn about animal adaptations. Try on larger-than-life costumed tails and morph into different animals. Hear a Native American tale about two unique local animals.

Wild About Animals From Africa to Antarctica, become part of the wild animal kingdom. Take an imaginary safari across Africa and look through binoculars to see zebras, lions and more! Waddle like a penguin in the coldest place on Earth then hop on over to a continent with unusual down-under residents.

Wonders of Weather Investigate seasonal weather patterns, complete the water cycle, make snow and race clouds. Have a hair-raising experience with lightning and take home jewelry with sun-sensing abilities!

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Elementary & Middle School Science Programs60 minutes, maximum 30 students per program



Digging for Dinosaurs* ES Grades 1 through 4 Uncover fossils on a mock paleontological dinosaur dig. Discuss Cincinnati’s world-famous Ordovician fossils, learn how fossils are formed and unearth how to differentiate them from rocks. Touchable fossils from dinosaurs including Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, raptors and many more make this program a junior paleontologist’s dream!

Incredible Insects ES Grades 1 through 5 Get up close with the creatures that make up Earth’s largest population. Learn the characteristics of insects, see the world through the eyes of a fly and learn amazing facts about insect defense, including camouflage and mimicry. This program comes complete with live insects and mounted insect specimens from across the globe.

The Reasons for the Seasons ES Grades 1 through 5 Using globes, rotate and revolve your way to learning about the seasons and understanding why spring and summer are warmer times of the year and fall and winter are colder. Create the sounds of spring and explore the effects of camouflage with mounted animal specimens from our collections. Win a seasonal prize if you can identify animal visitors by studying scat and tracks left behind.

Awesome Animal Adaptations ES Grades 1 through 8 Explore animal habitats and adaptations. Meet and touch live animals that may include a bat, snake, box turtle, tarantula and/or hissing cockroaches. Learn about and handle unique items from our collections like baleen, pronghorn antelope fur and armadillo armor.

Bats ES Grades 1 through 8 Walk like a bat, fly like a bat and meet a native Big Brown bat! Explore echolocation, understand how it works and hear what it sounds like. Learn about these amazing yet misunderstood animals through a slide presentation, a game, artifacts and more.

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Your Heart, Your Blood, Your Health ESGrades 2 through 6 Learn about how the heart is packaged, the way it works, the way it sounds, to which system it belongs and what it pumps. Get a closer look at capillaries, run a little race, test your food pyramid knowledge and share some giant microbes.

Experimenting with Physical Science ESGrades 3 through 6 What shapes do bubbles take? Does sound vibrate? Explore bubbles, sound, electricity, magnets, motion, light, color, mirrors and optical illusions in this inquiry-based program. Create hypotheses, perform experiments, draw conclusions and share your discoveries.

Tour the Solar System Grades 3 through 6 Soar through the solar system with recent slide images from Mercury, Neptune and beyond. Touch real meteorites and rocks of the type found on our Moon. Create impact craters and observe the crushing effects of air pressure!

Fossils at Our Feet: Ancient Creatures of the Queen City ES Grades 3 through 8 Investigate how land masses move and shift through time. Explore a timeline of major species evolution and extinction events. Learn about local ancient creatures, the habitats in which they lived and their adaptations. Program includes an Ordovician period diorama and fossil specimens from our collections. Program can accommodate adult audiences. Call for details.

Geology Rocks ES Grades 4 through 7 Transform into a geologist for the day! Learn all about rocks and minerals while viewing and handling impressive specimens from our collections. Test your knowledge of everyday uses of minerals then examine, test and classify specimens to learn their true identities.

Chemistry in Your Hands ES Grades 4 through 8 Heat it up and cool it down! See and feel the evidence of physical versus chemical change. Watch your experiments change color as you create acids and bases. Learn chemistry basics and practice lab safety. Beware—the results you take home may be slimy!

NEW! Exploring Nano Science ES Grades 4 through 8From clothing to household products and computers, nanotechnology is all around us. But, what is nano science? It’s science on the scale of the nanometer, which is just one billionth of a meter! Even though we can’t see these tiny structures, we will perform up to six experiments to explore the unique behavior of atoms and molecules on the nano scale. Strong reading skills are necessary for this program.

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Science of the Dead Sea Scrolls—Then & Now!Grades 4 through 8 Learn about the science of the past and present involved in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Explore the history and science behind Iron Gall Ink and ancient and modern manuscript materials. Recreate a message using a concordance, which is the same method scholars from the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College used to recreate sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Use DNA to match sections of a document together the same way researchers now match together sections of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Taxonomic Detectives ES Grades 4 through 8 Classification isn’t as mysterious as it sounds! Start off with some simple classification activities, then use clues based on eye placement and teeth type to inspect real animal skulls. Follow a dichotomous key to determine the skulls’ identity from the taxonomic order right down to the species.

ABC: Arches, Bridges & Construction ESGrades 5 through 8 Work in teams to build arches, a suspension bridge and a truss bridge you can crawl across. Learn what makes breidges work– anchors, beams, and compression to name a few. Explore the concepts of live load, dead load and environmental stress.

Forensics: The Science of Crime ES Grades 5 through 8 Analyze human skull replicas to determine the gender and ethnicity of a fictional victim. Combine clues from the skull with crime scene evidence to determine the identity of a missing person and speculate as to the cause of death. Program can be expanded to include human evolution. Call for details.

Thinking Green? ES Grades 5 through 8 We use energy every day, but where does it come from? Review energy types, explore personal energy usage and compare renewable and non-renewable sources of electricity. Use renewable energy kits to experiment with several types of clean energy and explore a roof that is green in more ways than one! Recommended program length is 75 minutes.

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Elementary & Middle School Social Studies Programs60 minutes, maximum 30 students per program



One World, Many Cultures Grades 1 through 4 Take a trip around the world using maps and travel buddies to navigate your way. Explore cultures from Africa, Asia, Australia and South and North America through clothing, crafts, games, celebrations, music and photographs.

Impact of Inventions ES Grades 2 through 6 Many inventors, like Benjamin Banneker, Garrett Morgan, Eli Whitney, George Washington Carver and Patricia Bath, have created items that change our daily lives. Use a timeline, experiments, hands-on activities and role playing to investigate the impact of their inventions, and others, on the past, present and perhaps future of our world.

Lotions, Potions & Strange Notions ESGrades 3 through 6 Learn the cause of cholera (present day and historical theories) then role-play the symptoms this disease caused. Touch a “giant microbe” of Vibrio cholerae (Cholera) and investigate where the disease is found today. Explore old-fashioned home and herbal remedies then use mortars and pestles to roll herbal pills like those dispensed in 19th-century apothecaries.

Transportation Transformations ES Grades 3 through 6 Learn how canals, streetcars and inclines impacted the growth of Cincinnati from the 1820s through the 1950s. Learn a period folksong, load goods on a mock canal boat, experience one of Cincinnati’s five inclines and view historical photographs of these forms of transportation.

When Two Worlds Met ES Grades 3 through 6 The North American fur trade connected people from two different worlds. Exchange furs, coins and wampum for replica goods from a late 18th-century trading post. Learn about the Battle of Fallen Timbers by stepping into roles as the signers of the Treaty of Greenville.

Business Beginnings Grades 3 through 8 Investigate soap and candle making, meatpacking, furniture making and brewing in 19th-century Cincinnati. Work in small groups and review period business records, illustrations and historical artifacts. Learn how productive resources were used in these industries and how they impacted production and consumption. Economic terms such as opportunity cost, scarcity, profit and loss are used in this program.

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Lewis & Clark ES Grades 3 through 8 Use maps, historical artifacts, parched corn and primary sources to study the wildlife, unknown lands and people Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery encountered on their journey. Primary source material includes a Meriwether Lewis manuscript owned by Museum Center and replicas of the Jefferson Peace Medal.

Liberty on the Border ES Grades 3 through 8 Imagine life as a Civil War soldier and interact with hardtack, period ammunition and a haversack containing personal supplies and historical letters written during the war. Learn about Civil War causes, economic effects, important figures and territorial expansion through photographs, prints, maps, replicas and other period materials.

The Underground Railroad: Its history, people & glory ES Grades 3 through 8Recreate elements of the Underground Railroad through pictures, slave shackles, photographs, maps, navigational tools and true stories of historical figures. Discover the resourcefulness, courage and determination of freedom-seeking slaves and abolitionists.

Walking City ES Grades 3 through 8 Explore how geographic factors kept Cincinnatians confined to the downtown basin and learn why our city remained a walking city longer than most. Use a 2’x3’ period map, the map key, advertisements and illustrations to perform a series of tasks that help you understand what life was like in 1863 Cincinnati.

Check cincymuseum.org/programs/lectures for more information.

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Adult Programs-on-WheelsRenkindle your love of the natural world. Our Adult Programs-on-Wheels are lecture-based programs led by passionate instructors who highlight our inspiring collections specimens.

BirdwatcherLearn how to identify birds and increase your enjoyment of the natural world. See bird species found in our region and get practical advice on observing, attracting and identifying them.

NEW! Exploration StationsHands-on, stop-and-go learning stations for family nights, field days, fairs, and other events booked by the hour!

Love our Programs-on-Wheels but looking for something less structured that can serve a greater number of people? Having an event and need additional activities to occupy and entertain attendees in an informal fashion? If so, our new Exploration Station offering is for you! Based off of the content of our traditional Programs-on-Wheels, Exploration Stations provide attendees with activities, experiments, live animals, or “touch tables” that give them the flexibility of “peeking” in for a minute to check out something that piques their interest or delving in and immersing themselves for an hour. You provide the tables, and we will provide museum materials and hands-on activities sure to entertain and educate people of all ages. Look for the ES distinction throughout the brochure to see the wide variety of topics now available in this format! Call for additional details.

Just for TeachersAt Cincinnati Museum Center, we’re committed to supporting educators throughout the entire year with professional development opportunities. Sign up for the Educator eNewsletter at cincymuseum.org/educators to receive the latest information about these events. Get the latest from cincymuseum.org by joining our Educator eNewsletter:

Learn about Teacher Preview eventsDownload Gallery and Interpretation Guides Find out about our OMNIMAX® films and Special ExhibitsReceive $20 Educator discount on your Member PassExplore Teacher resourcesAnd MORE!

Insights Lecture Series Appropriate for educators & high school students.Once a month, we invite experts who inspire change to speak about relevant cultural, scientific and historical topics. All lectures are held in Reakirt Auditorium and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.


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Learning Through Play ConferenceAt Cincinnati Museum Center, we know that open-ended, hands-on play is crucial to the development of your kids’ literacy, life skills and kindergarten readiness. Meet the region’s best childhood development experts and learn how to get the most from interactions with your little ones during this one-day conference on March 7. Choose from more than 30 sessions, two forums and a free information fair.

Adult-Only sessions explore how play can be used to educate children and Family-Interactive sessions allow adults and children to play and learn together! Sessions are approved for OH Step Up To Quality and KY Early Care and Education Training Hours.

Teacher Preview NightsPreview our new special exhibits and OMNIMAX® films and see if they’re a good fit for your classroom. Sign up for the Educator eNewsletter at cincymuseum.org/educators to stay informed.

Teacher Workshops: Fundamentals of Inquiry 90 minutes, maximum 36 teachers, $200 per programGet back to the basics of teaching science to your students! Join us for hands-on, team-oriented workshops developed specifically for educators interested in exploring the theory and practice of inquiry-based teaching with STEM applications. These 90-minute workshops illuminate the power of learning science content through inquiry and introduce strategies for providing inquiry- based experiences in the classroom.

Comparing Approaches to Hands-On Science Children approach learning about science in different ways. Educators should be able to vary their approaches to meet the needs of every student. Experience three approaches to teaching science in your classroom.

Process Skills - Children young and old use the same process skills when learning science. Experience them in this hands-on workshop that will foster your student’s interest and success in science.

Subtle Shifts - In order to help learners develop the process skills needed for science exploration and inquiry, teachers gradually shift to giving learners more responsibility for using these skills in science activities. Practice making small shifts in existing activities to help learners strengthen the process skills needed for scientific inquiry.

Interested in having a Fundamentals of Inquiry workshop at your location? We’re able to cater our workshops to your schools’ needs with activities chosen by you! Visit cincymuseum.org/educators/ongoinglearning for workshop dates and additional information. For more information concerning these workshop opportunities please contact _Karen Venetian at (513) 287-7000 ext.7204.

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